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What is Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (MCHC)

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Applications of Image Processing and Soft Computing Systems in Agriculture
Is a parameter of evaluation of the erythrocyte indices, being responsible for the evaluation of the staining of the erythrocytes. Thus, this analysis is of great importance for the classification of anemia. Is the mean hemoglobin concentration in 100 mL erythrocytes being plotted in gram per deciliter (g/dL). CHCM differs from HCM by the fact that the concentration takes cell volume into account and HCM only relates total hemoglobin to the number of erythrocytes.
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WT-MO Algorithm: Automated Hematological Software Based on the Watershed Transform for Blood Cell Count
Ana Carolina Borges Monteiro (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Yuzo Iano (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Reinaldo Padilha França (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), and Navid Razmjooy (Independent Researcher, Belgium)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 41
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8027-0.ch002
Abstract
Visual examination of blood smears is an essential tool for analysis, prevention, and remediation of several types of maladies. The interest of computer-aided decision has been acknowledged in many medicinal instances (e.g., automatic ways and means are being explored to spot, classify, and measure visual items in hematological cytology [HC]). This chapter proposes an entirely automated blood smear diagnosis system for hemograms, which can lessen the time spent to scrutinize a slide. The present framework relies on morphological operations (MOs) and soft segmentation by means of the watershed transform (WT). Experiments demonstrate the method efficacy to count white blood cells (WBCs) and red blood cells (RBCs). Some considerations about implementations, design advice and possible variants, as well as improvements are discussed. The future of automated medical analysis is contemplated.
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